Small explanation about what this library is used for

[konrazem]

It may be silly to ask but it would be nice if you can give a small explanation about the usage of this library. Why should I use it?
I guess it is related to PII. 😊

[moimikey]

if you log any kind of PII, you wouldn't want social security numbers and credit cards to sit in your logs. this would break PCI/DSS compliance for example.

[konrazem]

Thank you @moimikey for the answer. What I meant was to add such a section in README and explain where those logs can be shown and what can be covered. Not everybody is aware of logging systems like Sentry or Elastic. I think this is the purpose, to not store such information, not only to not log it? Where is the place I need to hide it and when? What can I hide with this package?

[mattwelke]

Depends on peoples' use cases. We're using this to prevent data from entering our system at all. That will cause any logging we do or data storage we do after the data passes the "redact" step we're building to be considered clean (or at least, as clean as it could be - if people encode their credit card numbers in base64, we can't help them).